Lamp and lantern holder.



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APPLICATION FILED MAY 13.1905.

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UNITED STATESiATENT OFFICE.-

TVILLIAM NESBIT ROBERTS AND HENRY BERT MATHEWS, OF ANSONIA, OHIO.

LAMP AND LANTERN HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 19, 1905.

Application filed May 13, 1905. Serial No. 260,344.

To all; whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM NESBIT ROBERTS and HENRY BERT .MATHEWS, citi- Zens of the United States, residing at Ansonia, in the county of Darke and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Holders for Lamps and Lanterns for Night Driving, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention is a lamp or lantern holder for carrying a lamp or lantern at the side of a buggy-top for night driving and a device for attaching the holder to the side of a lamp or lantern.

The object of our invention is to provide a means whereby the lamp or lantern may be instantly attached to or detached from the buggy-top and so carried as to throw the best possible light on the road fordriver and horse, not tending to blind the driver and to keep the lamp or lantern clean in all kinds of weather. e attain this object by means of the holder and attaching device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a detail view of the clamp. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation, and Fig. 3 is a front elevation, of the complete holder. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the lantern and holder attached to the buggy-top, parts being in section. Fig. 5 is a rear elevation, and Fig. 6 is a front elevation, of the holder attached to the buggy-top.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Fig. 1 shows a clamp by which the lamp or lantern is attached to the side brace of the buggy-top. This clamp is made of wire, so

bent as to form two semicircular hooks A A, which clamp around the side brace of the buggy-top, and a lever B, by which the clamp is operated in attaching and detaching the lamp or lantern to or from the bugg top.

Fig. 2 shows the plate O O, to which the clamp shown in Fig. 1 and the attaching device shown in Fig. 3 are fastened. It also shows the combination of clamp and plate. The plate is made of heavy tin turned out at the bottom and finished in a roll, so as to brace against the outside of the front bow of the bugg -top in such manner as to carry the plate in an upright position when attached to the brace of the buggy-top. The clamp is fastened to the plate in the position shown in Fig. 2 by a piece of tin soldered or riveted over it between the hooks A A. The clamp is held closed by the lever at B, resting against the plate. To unclamp the holder from the buggy, spring the lever B out till it will pass the edge of the plate and draw it down. This unhooks or unclamps it from the brace on the buggy-top. I

Fig. 3 shows device forattaching the holder to the lamp or lantern in connection withplate O C. This device consists of three parts a W-shaped 'strip E, fastened to said plate lengthwise thereof, to receive a lantern-tube, a hoop-like ring F, attached to said plate and bent at the middle G to fit around the opposite lantern-tube, and a clamp H, formed of wire and rotatably attached to the top of said plate, having a semicircular hook near its middle to fit around the top of the lanterntube and a lever at its end. This hook hQOks around under the top part of the lantern-tube and prevents the holder from slipping up on the lantern.

Fig. 4 shows the holder attached to the lantern by means of the attaching device.

Fig. 5 shows the holder clamped to the side brace of the buggy-top.

Fig. 6 shows the lantern in position on the buggy-top.

WVhat we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

' A lantern-holder comprising a rectangular plate bent out at the bottom and finished in a roll, a W-shaped strip fastened to said plate lengthwise thereof to receive a lanterntube, a hoop-like ring attached to said plate and bent at the middle to fit around the opposite lantern-tube, a clamp formed of wire and rotatably attached to the top of said plate having a semicircular hook near its middle to fit around the top of the lantern-tube and a lever at its end, and a second clamp formed of wire rotatably fastened to said plate and having two semicircular hooks which clamp around the buggy-brace and a lever formed by bending one end of the wire at right angles to the clamping portion, said lever forming the actuating and retaining means of the clamp.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WVILLIAM NESBIT ROBERTS. HENRY BERT MATHEWS.

Witnesses:

GUY O. BOSIER, CLARA B. Hnss. 

